Guilty Until Proven Innocent
I've alluded to Sean Miller's situation over the past week, always with sadness. Those of us who live here and follow our University's sports teams as if they were our own have a soft spot in our hearts for the basketball coach. He's a family man, a coach descended from a coach, a point guard who trained point guards. His over-active sweat glands were testimony to his passion. He loved us and we loved him. Could he have been unaware of Book Richardson's folly? That was as close as most of us allowed ourselves to get. He couldn't possibly be guilty. And then YAHOO! and ESPN revealed that the FBI had a tape of Sean Miller, $100,000, and an unnamed player. Suddenly, Sean was off the bench for the Oregon game. I am certain that I will be vindicated was all we got. Though he wasn't mentioned, the media assumed that De'Andre Ayton was the player in play; the fact that he was allowed to take the court had everyone musing. ...